Mother Teresa: Life in Pictures

Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhia, better known as Mother Teresa, was born on August 26, 1910, in Skopje in Macedonia. She was the youngest of three children of an Albanian family. As she was pink and plump, her brothers and sisters fondly called her `Gonxha` (flower bud). From childhood, the children were taught lessons of charity. Agnes liked to be in church and spend most of her free time reading, praying and singing.

Image:This file photo taken on December 12, 1979 shows Mother Teresa in Oslo with the Nobel Peace Prize she received.